Opinion | Men Have Viagra. What About Women?

What do you think women want in this landscape? First of all, sex. By the way, it’s very unfair. Men at least have Viagra, yeah. Women have not really something. So so many women I’m talking to are like: Hey, I want to feel pleasure. And it’s always, by the way, connected to women’s health and well-being. And the No. 1 thing they’re all citing is, like, menopause sucks. Yeah. And we want also something for sexual pleasure, which we don’t have at the moment. Women don’t have. But in terms of, like, we’ve been talking about male-pattern baldness and erectile dysfunction, like, just give me an example of the female market. But saying one thing is like, I can give you examples, which a lot of women tell me, but I don’t even want to generalize because my whole message is: It’s up to you. And a lot of people think this is pushing people more in body conformity. I think in the moment we make it easy to achieve, I think the world will go more diverse. – So I think, then, because —— – Right. Because right now, temporarily, right, there is the phenomenon of, like, the Jenner family, who all seem to have ended up with the same face. There are certain convergences in looks that you get under these conditions. Because it’s still — yes, because it’s still hard to access because it’s expensive, because their look is not therapeutic use of drugs. Their use is operational, which is very expensive. But if that would be available to everybody, I don’t think we all want to look the same. You don’t think there would be convergence. No, I’m thinking about that a lot, because I’m just like, I love history. And if you go into history, what always the beauty standard of each time was what was the hardest to get. A lot of the beauty standards are indirectly signaling that you have money because they are practically what you’re signaling. If I’m very trained, if I’m very — if I’m thin, whatever, I have the time to do that. And so in the medieval ages, for example, the beauty standard was very pale. Why? Because the peasants had to work outside, so they were very tanned, so only the rich ladies could stay behind their castles and be very pale. So being pale was the unobtainable. And then being on the beach becomes the thing that rich people do and tan. – Exactly. – So it switches. And — but there’s still a standard. I mean, human beings are mimetic. It’s just hard for me —— Yes, but what I’m saying is, like, what happens if we’re making everything fairly easy. Is that not actually opening up the window because people are not seeing it as something unobtainable?